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1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Published in 1948, this cautionary tale follows a lone protagonist who struggles under the rule of a repressive totalitarian government. Set in a future version of England, called Airstrip One, the novel is famous for its imagined language that conjures a cruelly cynical authoritarian regime. One of the most popular novels in the English language, it is part political thriller and part science fiction, and it established the word Orwellian to describe official deception, unwarranted surveillance, and revisionist history by the state.
Public Domain (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Classics Political Dystopian Science Fiction Espionage Fiction Surveillance
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Hadn't read this since school 30 years ago, but found it to be disturbingly relevant. Certainly gets the thought cogs turning!

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